Judges 4:22

4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent, ¹  and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead ²  with the tent peg in his temple.

Judges 6:39

6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. ³  Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” ⁴ 

Judges 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ⁵  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ⁶  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Judges 14:16

14:16 So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder ⁷  and said, “You must ⁸  hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men ⁹  a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” ¹⁰ 

Judges 15:1

Samson Versus the Philistines

15:1 Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, ¹¹  Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. ¹²  He said to her father, ¹³  “I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!” ¹⁴  But her father would not let him enter.

Judges 15:11

15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

Judges 16:13

16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair ¹⁵  into the fabric on the loom ¹⁶  and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 17:3

17:3 When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, “I solemnly dedicate ¹⁷  this silver to the Lord. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.” ¹⁸ 

Judges 20:28

20:28 Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the Lord ¹⁹  in those days), “Should we ²⁰  once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, ²¹  or should we ²²  quit?” The Lord said, “Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them ²³  over to you.”

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¹ tn Heb “he went to her.”

² tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

³ tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

⁴ tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

⁵ tn Heb “The man of God.”

⁶ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

⁷ tn Heb “on him.”

⁸ tn Heb “only”; or “simply.”

⁹ tn Heb “the sons of my people.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Should I tell you?”

¹¹ sn The wheat harvest took place during the month of May. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 37, 88.

¹² tn Heb “Samson visited his wife with a young goat.”

¹³ tn The words “to her father” are supplied in the translation (see the end of the verse).

¹⁴ tn Heb “I will go to my wife in the bedroom.” The Hebrew idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations. The cohortative form used by Samson can be translated as indicating resolve (“I want to go”) or request (“let me go”).

¹⁵ tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.

¹⁶ tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.

¹⁷ tn Heb “dedicating, I dedicate.” In this case the emphatic infinitive absolute lends a mood of solemnity to the statement.

¹⁸ tn Heb “to the LORD from my hand for my son to make a carved image and cast metal image.” She cannot mean that she is now taking the money from her hand and giving it back to her son so he can make an image. Verses 4-6 indicate she took back the money and used a portion of it to hire a silversmith to make an idol for her son to use. The phrase “a carved image and cast metal image” is best taken as referring to two idols (see 18:17-18), even though the verb at the end of v. 4, וַיְהִי (vayÿhi, “and it was [in the house of Micah]”), is singular.

¹⁹ tn Heb “standing before him.”

²⁰ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

²¹ tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).

²² tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

²³ tn Heb “him” (collective singular).